Sr. Director - Solution Architecture (Data and AI)

Privia Health

22h•$190,000 - $220,000•Remote

About The Position

By bringing an AI-aware approach to modernizing processes and design, this individual will elevate operational intelligence while maintaining rigorous standards for safety and compliance. They will partner with senior business & operations leadership to define architectural guardrails, promote consistency, and mentor our engineering and data teams.

Requirements

10+ years of experience architecting scalable platforms, and microservices including RESTful APO design and cloud native development
7+ years of experience in software solution architecture, with a focus on AI/ML systems
5+ years of experience working in healthcare technology ecosystem or familiarity with healthcare data, regulatory constraints, interoperability expectations
5+ years of experience communicating architectural vision and strategy across cross functional teams
3+ years of experience in cloud platforms (GCP, AWS and Azure) and data integration tools
2+ years of experience designing agentic workflows and autonomous systems
1+ years of experience with AI/ML concepts, including responsible AI principles, multi-agent solutions like Vertex AI, generative AI and MCP
1+ years of experience with MLOps tools for deploying and managing models in Production
Ability to work with 3rd party vendors to evaluate, assses and scale AI integrations

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's in computer science, engineering or related technical field
Experience integrating AIenabled capabilities into enterprise systems while maintaining architectural hygiene, safety, compliance and maintainability
Experience leading large scale modernization initiatives, interoperability transformations, platform rationalization efforts
Solid grounding of healthcare specific data exchange standards

Responsibilities

Shape the end-to-end architecture across platform, services, and data domains and ensure alignment between technology architecture and operational needs.
Establish clear patterns, guardrails, and reusable services that support modernization, interoperability and long term sustainability
Apply an AI aware mindset to inform design choices, improve clarity of trade-offs, and guide teams toward a shared architecture vision
Interact with business stakeholders and operations teams to identify automation use cases through AI
Hands-on experience developing pilots, POCs and incubating new ideas
Oversee design through the full lifecycle, ensuring reliability, performance, security and cost effectiveness are built in from the start
Responsible for the end to end architecture of next generation Privia Data Foundry
Mentor engineering teams in the use of AI, especially for development, testing, solution documentation and dependency analysis
Design solutions informed by healthcare data flows, RCM, clinical workflows, provider and payer contracts, and regulatory expectations
Understand how EMR and clinical systems interact with payer platforms to guide integration, data movement
Familiarity with value based care and fee for service delivery models
Ability to build big data warehouse using Snowflake and other technologies
Apply interoperability standards (HL7, X12 FHIR) to ensure systems communicate reliabily and securely
Modernize legacy data and technology platforms
Lead design reviews and share best practices, and foster a culture focused on simplification, reuse and responsible innovation
Encourage sage and effective adoption of AI augmented engineering techniques across teams
Identify architectural improvements that reduce operational effort and increase developer productivity
Support continuous improvement with metrics, insights and evolving standards - using AI supported analysis where help